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Distributed by Universal-International, the Hammer film Brides of Dracula featured Molly Arbuthnot (1908 – 2001), as the head of costume design. A prolific artist, she was credited as a designer for nearly sixty films. Her main speciality was lavish Hammer ...

Gothic Victorian literature has a rather interesting formula when it comes to our women in horror: the woman in question is either punished for impure behavior, or she is attempted to be saved by the heroes as a way to ...

Download MP3 In the third part of their series inspired by Cathal Tohill and Pete Tombs’ book Immoral Tales: European Sex & Horror Movies, 1956-1984, Kat and Samm explore the work of French poète maudit Jean Rollin. First, they discuss ...

Titan Comics’ Anno Dracula: 1895: Seven Days in Mayhem is my introduction to author Kim Newman’s alternate history world in which Count Dracula has married Queen Victoria and ushered in an era of vampire domination in Britain. Judging from the ...

By the time House of Frankenstein opened in 1944, horror stars Lon Chaney Jr. and Boris Karloff were massive draw cards at the box office and actors to look out for – therefore it makes sense that by the time ...

Jacinto Molina Álvarez aka Paul Naschy is one of those horror genre figures who is passionately beloved by fans — deservedly so, in my opinion — and remains, alongside Jess Franco, perhaps the most well-known and prolific figure of Spanish ...

“We thought we were driving South In our late model hearse We had no clue we were headed From bad to worse” “The Vampire Roadtrip” by The Hammerdowns There is something so quintessentially American about road trips. I’m not talking ...

Since the 1920s, Bram Stoker’s Dracula has inspired an overwhelming number of film adaptations. It is tragic, yet understandable, how so many of these films have been forgotten or lost over the years. Writer and director Hans W. Geissenndörfer’s 1970 Stoker-inspired ...

Download MP3 | Download OGG In the inaugural episode of Daughters of Darkness, Kat and Samm explore the history of lesbian vampire films. This first episode of three begins by examining the lesbian vampire from her origins in eighteenth century Gothic literature, ...

While he had made a few notable films prior, it was with Halloween that writer, director, producer, composer, all-around filmmaking extraordinaire John Carpenter exploded on to the scene. Following Halloween, Carpenter ran through a streak hardly ever matched in the industry, ...